The deal, announced Friday, will have the team develop television projects to debut exclusively on Prime Video, Amazon's streaming service that competes with the likes of Hulu and Netflix.

Kirkman previously had an overall deal at AMC, where he has two series: The Walking Dead, based on Kirkman's graphic novel, and the companion Fear the Walking Dead, which he co-created. Season 6 of The Walking Dead made this known via Jesus when he let the people of Alexandria know about their world getting bigger. He is also executive producer of the AMC series Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics, and the pre-apocalyptic drama, Five Year, that is being developed for multiple territories including Germany, India, Brazil, and Italy.

Rent or Own: Hundreds of thousands of titles, including new release movies and current TV shows available for on-demand rental or purchase for all Amazon customers. Those projects will likely be part of the library of content available to subscribers of Amazon Prime. Moving into the digital content space, Skybound produced the first-ever narrative VR series, Gone, for Samsung's Milk VR platform and in 2017 will produce VR horror series Lies Within, which is the first project out of Skybound's partnership with interactive theatrical company Delusion. In features, Kirkman will produce Invincible based on his long-running comic book.